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Setting Default Permissions
As you probably know, permissions define how a file or directory can be used. When you create a new file, it is automatically given a default set of permissions called the umask.
One way to summarize permissions is with three digits. From left to right, they are the permissions for the user account from which the file was created, for those in the same group as the creator, and for all others logged in. Apparently for no other reason than that the idea seemed good at the time, each digit is a sum of numbers in base 8 defining a permission. Read permission is 4, write permission 2, execute permission 1, and no permissions 0. This shorthand is called absolute mode, symbolic permissions, or octal permissions, depending on your preference.
Under this system, a file that everyone could read, write, and execute would have a permission of 777. By contrast, a file that the owner could read, write, and execute, and that nobody else could use at all, would have a permission of 700.
When you create a file and the system assigns the default set of permissions, the umask is defined in /etc/login.defs. However, you can set the umask for each account by adding the umask command followed by the permissions (e.g., umask 700) to .bashrc.
Customizing the Prompt
The command prompt is the recurring text that appears to the left of where you start typing in a command. If you're a new user, you might not have paid much attention to the prompt.
Nor do you absolutely need to these days. In the days before desktops became the norm, the prompt once held useful information that you might want at a glance, such as the current directory, date, and time. Nowadays, when you can get much of this information from the desktop, you might not care so much about the prompt.
Still, even today, you might find it handy to have basic information always visible, such as the current account and directory, even if you are almost always using a virtual terminal. For one thing, you never know when you will need to repair your system when you have no desktop available. Moreover, if you look at many distributions, you often find that the final character in the prompt tells you whether you are using a user or root account; user account prompts end in a dollar sign, whereas root account prompts end in a hash sign (#).
In fact, once you look, you might notice that different distributions have different prompts on the basis of what information they think users might want. For example, if I were working in the /usr/share directory on a computer called nanday, in Fedora, my default prompt would be [bruce@conure share] $, whereas in Debian, it would be bruce@nanday:/usr/share$. From this difference, you might correctly infer that Fedora's defaults assume that users stay largely in their home directories because the full path is not given, whereas Debian's defaults assume that their more advanced users might be anywhere in the system and prefer not to stop to use the pwd command to find out where they are.
In addition, you might want to shorten the prompt, especially if you are listing current paths but tend to have directories nested five or six deep. Alternatively, you might simply want to change the color of the prompt to make it more visible, to please your sense of aesthetics, or to provide a more striking distinction between the root and everyday accounts.
Whatever your reason, the best place to start if you want to change your prompt is by temporarily changing the PS1 prompt parameter. These changes will remain in effect until you either change them yet again or close your current virtual terminal. The next terminal you open will revert to the default prompt.
To begin, you want to view the current settings for PS1, the variable for the prompt, by entering the command echo $PS1. Likely, you will get a response that reads something like: [\u@\h \W]$, which is the reading I get for a machine with Fedora 10 installed. By comparing it with the Fedora prompt mentioned above, you can figure out what each entry in it means. Notice, though, the extra elements, such as the @ between the username (\u) and hostname (\h) and the space between the hostname and the current directory (\W).
You can change this prompt temporarily by referring to Table 1. I have not bothered with some options that are unlikely to be of interest to modern non-developers. If you are curious, you can easily find a complete list online with a quick search.
For instance, if I wanted just to display the current user account, I could make a temporary change by running PS1="\u $ " to produce the prompt bruce $ . Notice that the space after the dollar sign is not an error but was added deliberately so that my typing is separate from the prompt.
If I want to add color, I can change the color of the characters according to the formula:
"\e[x;ym\e[m "
In this formula, \e[ marks the start of the characters that the color applies to, \e[m marks the end, and x;ym is the color code (Table 2). The command to change the prompt to dark red would be:
PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m "
If you substitute a 1 for the 0, you get a lighter version of the same color.
Experiment with these temporary changes until you have the prompt you want. If you make a mistake, you can either use the arrow keys to find an entry in the command history from which you can reverse the mistake or simply close the window if you are working in a virtual terminal.
When you figure out the prompt formula that you want, open the .bashrc file for your account in a text editor and replace the existing formula with the one that you have devised. If you prefer, you can also use the export command: for example, export PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m ".
History Options
The Bash history is a list of previously used commands stored in .bash_history. If you continually type the same or similar commands, you can use the Up and Down arrow keys to scroll to the command you want to use.
The export command sets shell variables and is one way to customize the Bash history. Or, edit .bashrc directly. To set the number of commands stored in the history to 1,200, either enter on the command line or add to .bashrc:
export HISTFILESIZE=1200
Because .bash_history is a text file, it does not require much memory, so you have no reason not to use this setting to increase the default size of 500 entries. Of course, the larger the file, the more scrolling you have to do to find an older command, but you can always open .bash_history in a text editor and use its search function.
Another customization is to keep duplicate commands from being added to .bash_history. For this option, enter:
export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
This customization ensures that .bash_history contains only unique commands, but it might mean that the command you want requires extra scrolling, especially if you have just used a command that already appears well down the list.
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The Rainbow Daytona is Rolex's extravagant chronograph. Sapphire stones in the colors of the rainbow decorate the bezel, and diamonds stud the case and dial. Thanks to its stopwatch function, this striking timepiece is also a functional accessory.
It's hard to miss a Rolex Daytona Rainbow thanks to its characteristic gemstones that shine in the colors of the rainbow. Thirty-six baguette-cut sapphires adorn the bezel, sparkling in bright red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Most examples use eight diamonds to mark the indices, though some use 11 precious stones instead. Gems also ornament the lugs and crown protector on many examples. Like every Daytona, the Rolex Rainbow also functions as a chronograph. The in-house caliber 4130, introduced by Rolex in 2001, allows you to time periods of up to 12 hours. Thanks to its frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour (A/h), you can measure the time to an eighth of a second.
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The Rolex Rainbow is one of the most coveted versions of the Daytona among Rolex fans and watch enthusiasts. This is due to its colorful appearance in contrast to the subdued tones of typical Rolex watches and to the fact that only a very limited number were produced. The most eye-catching part of this watch is without a doubt the bezel, with its 36 baguette-cut sapphires that shine in the colors of the rainbow. The lugs and crown protector are also adorned with diamonds, and the black dial bears eight diamonds as hour markers. Only the 3, 6, and 9 are marked with golden Arabic numerals (15, 30, and 45). A golden five-pointed Rolex crown occupies the 12 o'clock position. The luxury watch manufacturer uses a gold alloy on the small seconds dial, the 12-hour counter, and 30-minute counter. This alloy is reminiscent of a gold nugget and matches the color of the 40-mm case. On the example with reference number 116598 RBOW, the case is made of 18-carat yellow gold, while on Ref. 116599 RBOW it is made of 18-carat white gold.
Don't let its glitzy appearance fool you – the Rolex Rainbow is also a high-quality chronograph. The in-house caliber 4130 ticks away inside of it with the precision of a certified chronometer. Of course, such a coveted watch comes at a price. A new Rolex Rainbow in yellow gold goes for around 220,000 USD, and a model in white gold costs around 228,000 USD. Pre-owned models are only marginally less expensive, at 208,000 USD for yellow gold and 152,000 USD for white gold. In early 2018, Rolex announced that it would be introducing a Daytona Rainbow in Everose gold. In contrast to the yellow and white gold models, the index markers on the Everose model with Ref. 116595RBOW are made of the same colorful sapphires found on the bezel. The price for the rose gold model is only available upon request, but it is safe to assume that it is similar to the other Rainbow models.
Since the original Rainbow is such a rare model, there are also numerous replicas on the market. Interesting among these are the so-called aftermarket models, which can also be found on Chrono24. These watches are authentic Daytona models that were subsequently fitted with colorful stones. The stones are often simple crystals, though sometimes sapphires and diamonds are used.
Overall, the quality of the aftermarket models cannot compete with a real Rainbow from Rolex. This is clear from the subdials, which often look copied, and the lower quality color of the crystals added to the bezel. That being said, one of these modified Daytonas is significantly less expensive than an original. A model with a stainless steel case goes for as low as 21,000 USD, whereas a gold model costs around 31,000 USD and a white gold model around 35,000 USD.
The 40-mm case of the Rainbow Daytona is available in 18-karat white, yellow, and Everose gold. The yellow gold model has the most impressive appearance, with its matte black dial and diamond indices. There are golden Arabic numerals (15, 30, 45) at the 3, 6, and 9 positions, and the five-pointed Rolex crown is located at 12 o'clock. The golden, camouflage-patterned subdials at three, six, and nine o'clock function as the small seconds, 30-minute counter, and 12-hour counter, respectively. The three small hands are red like the main stopwatch hand, while the other central hands for the minute and hour are golden.
Precious gems such as diamonds and sapphires make the Rainbow even more valuable. Most noticeable are the 36 baguette-cut sapphires on the bezel, which span the entire color spectrum of the rainbow, from red to purple. White, "brilliant-cut diamonds" cover the lugs and crown protector. A three-piece link Oyster bracelet made of 18-karat yellow gold keeps the watch securely on your wrist.
The Daytona has been connected to racing from the start. Rolex presented the timepiece in 1963, naming it after the eponymous race track in Daytona Beach, Florida. The chronograph was introduced at a time when racing chronographs dominated the industry. Today, Rolex is still best known for three-hand watches; some of their most popular collector's watches are the Submariner and GMT-Master. This could be one reason why the Daytona didn't sell well at first. Vintage Daytonas from the 1960s are thus especially rare and sought after.
The "Paul Newman" is one of the most beloved Rolex chronographs, named after the actor and racer Paul Newman. It's said that he received his first Daytona as a gift from his second wife. Newman wore the watch while racing, which contributed to its fame. In late 2017, a model worn by Newman was auctioned for the record-setting price of 17.75 USD. The watch overtook the previous record holder, a Patek Philippe Ref. 1518, as the most expensive watch in the world. Unlike typical Daytonas, the Paul Newman model has a contrasting dial edge. The three subdials feature Arabic numerals in an Art Deco style with small squares at the end of the line indices.
The Rolex Rainbow has been powered by the in-house caliber 4130 since 2001. The balance wheel with a blue Parachrom hairspring vibrates at 28,800 A/h. It has been made of a zirconium-niobium alloy since 2005, making it unaffected by magnetic fields. The watch is regulated via Microstella nuts on the balance rim, as is every Rolex in-house caliber. Normally, a watch requires a regulator, which lengthens or shortens the balance spring, thereby influencing the movement's precision. The power reserve is 72 hours, or 66 hours if the chronograph function is turned on. The watch is also water resistant to 100 m (328 feet or 10 bar) thanks to a screw-down case back, push-pieces, and crown.

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It's been busy since my last update, lots of stuff to work on! I probably won't get it all in one post, but I'll try to hit the highlights. The main event over the past two weeks was my first board meeting in Seattle.
I arrived Monday afternoon and shared a taxi to the hotel with Kevin Kline. Kevin is a nice guy and has been with PASS since the beginning, and has the distinction of being the only two term President so far. He was kind enough to share some advice about how I might work on getting my ideas to succeed, and in general just talked about how things had been versus where they were going. Good conversation.
I had the chance after arrival to spend some time with Greg Low who heads up the PASS Chapters. Greg has done some great work on growing the number of chapters, and we talked about how/when to try to start translating our content into other languages. I'm sure most of you understand the challenges involved in that effort, but it's something that needs to happen...at some point. Deciding when is the challenge. We also talked the challenges of supporting community events with limited funding; Greg worrying that groups will be upset if they don't get funding, me believing that PASS can at least provide moral support (morale too!) and should do so. More on this in a bit.
Most of us were there for dinner Mon night and we talked shop some, but not entirely. Low key, and I called it a night about 9 pm so as not to be too tired for the first session on Tues. Tuesday we started at 7 am with a meeting with President Wayne Synder as he talked about the role of the Board, and our specific responsibilities, and our legal obligations (something to think about, we're ultimately accountable for both money and for things that go wrong). After that we had some opening stuff from Wayne about setting goals and meeting our goals - board members are volunteers, but clearly they have to shoulder more accountability for meeting goals than most. I thought he did a good job of stating his case, and won a little more respect from me by starting it by admitting there were areas where he had fallen short. I thought it was honest, fair, and a great way to level set.
Next up was a financial briefing. Some of that falls into the realm of confidential (you'll see it all in the once a year financial statement so don't worry), but it was part of the annual mid year course correction that is done once the final numbers from the Summit are done. For this year we're going to fall slightly short of our original 2009 budget, but each Director will be making some adjustments in spend to bring the difference back to zero. It's definitely a complicated process, as we're already accruing money and expects for FY 2010 and finance has to keep it all straight. Overall it was a good presentation, the current fiscal picture is sound, and the big challenge is to set a realistic budget for FY 2010 - something we'll complete at our May meeting.
We spent some time reviewing our mission statement, goals, etc - and while we made some progress, it felt incomplete. I think it's a good exercise because each year we have new board members and they need to understand/share the vision. But...we'll come back to this, because we weren't done yet!
From there we want into presentations by board members about their goals for the next 90 days. Bill Graziano started off by covering Marketing, which is primarily Summit marketing but includes general efforts as well. Nothing big to report here yet, they are forming plans for the Summit and seem to be in good shape to leverage what they learned in 2008.
Next up was Greg on Chapters, and his focus was technology needs (so that chapters are fully integrated into the main site & membership list), building regional mentors and sharing those lessons (he's had nice success outside the US), and working on a virtual speaker bureau (mostly technology).
Rick Heiges was next, his portfolio is PASS Community Connection, but he also currently handles MVP relations. Note that I'm going to try to state the following fairly, but realize I have some bias due to my involvement with SQLSaturday, and I abstained from the discussion of Community Connection related plans. We have a couple events in the works, but we're missing infrastructure to support it, and also some concerns at HQ (warranted I think) about the admin side if they really start to take off. Definitely needs technology assistance, but we won't know what we can get done over the next few months until Douglas McDowell gets up to speed this week and then we can fight for priorities. On the MVP side PASS hasn't done the greatest job in the past working with MVP's, and perhaps vice versa. Rick talked about needing to get information out to MVP's earlier about the Summit and in general engaging with them - all good stuff it seemed to me.
It was my turn next, and I ran longer than my allowed 30 minutes (not on purpose). There's a lot to do as far as content and communities, and I needed buy in from the board before starting some of those efforts. I'll have another post next week that goes into more detail, but a quick summary is that we're going to return to publishing the SQL Server Standard as PDF only, we're going to add some key pages to sqlpass.org that have been missing, and we're going to work hard to help our members connect with content - especially from blogs. A key point of my strategy is to do the things we're good at, and not try to duplicate the work of other sites that are good at what they do.
We took a break then, but in truth it was really just moving the meeting to a less formal setting in the lounge area until dinner, and then on through dinner. I had a chance to meet some of the staff at PASS HQ and they really impressed me. They want to work and win, and they know that they need help and input to get there from the Board. It's hard to convey here, but I know that they'll go where I need them to go, just a matter of setting direction. Lots of good sidebars during this time, and I kept coming back to wondering what questions I didn't know to ask. It's literally a new job, and I don't have a day to waste understanding how things work, what needs attention, etc, etc.
On Wed we started out by working on our goals some more, and what on Tues seemed not like the best use of time really grew into something interesting. One part that was very good is that PASS has altered it's view on community events to support any SQL event - regardless of label - to the extent that it can. The other part that went back to my talk on Tues was that we've come to a firmer vision of the role of PASS and how it relates to other communities. I don't know that we have in a couple sentences yet, but the essence is; we will embrace those that support SQL Server, and we're going to use our voice to positively impact our profession.
We had a short presentation from Tom Larock about SIG's, and the big change there is his focus on treating SIG's as virtual/online chapters. I think he has some info on his blog and I expect more soon, but I think just refining the vision may give the SIG's a chance to succeed to a greater extent than they have in the past.
Douglas McDowell in at PASS HQ this week catching up on where we stand on technology. Not everything is about technology, but clearly there are places where PASS - like any other business - needs to make investments to grow and sustain. His role is coordinator and project manager; make sure we don't duplicate efforts, that projects fit within the scope of what we can do, and then help board members get it done. Note that in FY 2010 each board member will have funds allocated for technology, they can use those as needed with Douglas providing support. I don't envy him the challenge, but I think he can really help us move forward.
Pat Wright didn't get to present his goals for volunteers due to time constraints, but he's got a good v1 strategy for making sure that all our volunteers are treated well and more importantly, that we find tasks to fit their skills and available time.
We wrapped up Wed by having dinner and bowling with some people from Microsoft, and we spent a lot more time talking than bowling - well worth the time, and then we met up again after that and worked until 11 pm (again) on firming up ideas for the next quarter.
It was an intense 2.5 days for me. Parts of the meeting were a little bit blah, but I'm hard to please at times. I definitely see that the integration of new board members needs more attention to reduce the get up to speed time. I also see that for PASS, now is the time. We've had some small but measurable successes, we need to build on that and earn our place. There aren't many things PASS can do that you (or I) will say "wow", but I think the cumulative impact in the next year can be pretty good - if we execute. I left the meeting excited about working on my part of things, and really looking forward to the next meeting - hoping that I can say all my goals are accomplished and that the rest of the board can say the same.
I found the meeting to be positive and I'm making an effort to highlight that, but it doesn't mean I don't see some weak areas. Some of that is lack of direction, some of it lack of accountability, some of it that working with just volunteers is hard. I'm going to press the other board members to publish their goals and then we can all see what is being done or not done. Being less than perfect doesn't mean we don't have good people - I didn't see anyone there that I didn't want to work with or that I thought didn't care about the success of PASS.
I hope I didn't ramble too much. When the minutes come out I'll get a link posted in an update to the blog, and next week I'll tell you about my goals. Until then, I invite your comments, questions, and suggestions.
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My first race of the day last week at ChiCrossCup #2 (Masters 40+) went off at 8:45. Strategy was simple, go as hard as possible and see what happens. While the hole shot and first lap victory were my reward, 6 laps were far too many for that strategy to work. I faded fast and finished 11th.
All photos thanks to Amy Dykema aka Velogrrl.
The second race of the day for me, OUISSSCXC didn't start until 4:15, no wonder the family didn't want to come out. But as you can see below, it was well worth the wait. With so much on the line for the winner, all the fast dudes showed up.
Including this guy.
Hay Straw bales! Hay Straw bales should be mandatory features in all categories at cyclocross races, let the petition drive begin!
I got 6th in race #2 of the day but more importantly James Lalonde won. What does that mean? That Chicago will be well represented at the 2011 SSWCXC. No pressure James.
Huge thanks to Half Acre Cycling, North Central Cyclery, ChiCrossCup and Robots Powered by Love – they put on a stellar race and the course was my favorite of the season until this past weekend.
ChiCrossCup #3 – I wasn't prepared to like Sunday's course with lots of flat, straight, grassy, power sections, but there were enough climby, off-camber, techy sections to more than make up for it. Bonus points for the giant log in the middle of the course, just big enough to scare 95% of the racers into getting off their bike but not so tall as to intimidate like a regulation barrier. My favorite CX course so far this year, will be very hard to top.
Wait for it, wait for it…Money!
My strategy was to not go out as hard as last week and to hopefully ride with the lead group for as long as possible leaving enough in the tank to finish well. Problem was, backing off just hair at the start of a CCC race doesn't mean just a few people get in front of you it means 25-30 racers get in front of you. Chase on!
Not starting at the front resulted in my best CCC placing ever, 6th out of 70+ registered. Note to self: new strategy needs to be somewhere in-between the two previous strategies.
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Barring catastrophic winds the night of, the Stars & Stripes Over San Antonio Fourth of July fireworks display is a go, despite these 100-degree, soul-draining, joy-sucking days, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.
The event offers music on two stages, a kids area, food truck food, and beverages. But, contrary to a press released issued last week, Alamo Street will not be closed.
The event is 6-10 p.m. with a 20-minute fireworks display at 9:30 p.m.
"The fireworks are going to be much bigger — 8-inch shells shot from the ground," Becky Bridges, vice president of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the event, said.
It's free.
The chamber is expecting 50,000 people to attend, and are planning on holding the event yearly, especially since similar fireworks displays are no longer held at the local Air Force bases.
"It makes sense for San Antonio to have something like this because of our military bases and because it's a great destination," Bridges said.
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Two young offenders who contend they were forced to sit naked in their cells at the Alexander County jail have reached a legal settlement with the county.
Under the terms of the settlement, the county's insurance company will pay former inmates Justin Helton and Austin Saddler $15,000 each, according to a source knowledgeable about the settlement.
The two were 16 in 2011 when they say they were forced to go naked for days at a time, sometimes in full view of adult inmates. They allege they were also deprived of their mattresses and their belongings as punishment for trying to tattoo themselves.
When they entered the hallway for meals and showers they contend they were forced to do so completely naked. Their allegations first became public in an Observer story published last year.
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Ground-ballers: Better than You Think
There are two more important reasons why Skill-Interactive Earned Run Average's (SIERA) is so successful at predicting the following year's ERA. First, most other Defense-Independent Pitching Statistics, like FIP and xFIP, assume that pitchers have no control over their Batting Average on Ball in Play (BABIP), but we know that they do have some control. I have shown before that pitchers with high strikeout totals and low ground-ball rates tend to allow fewer hits per ball in play, and thus lower BABIPs. Of course, BABIP is subject to so much luck that it is nearly impossible to discern a pitcher's true ability to prevent hits on balls in play from his historical BABIP. That is why last year's FIP is much better at predicting this year's ERA than last year's ERA is. It strips ERA of BABIP (and sequencing) altogether and assumes league-average BABIP for all pitchers and random sequencing.
Another reason that SIERA is great at predicting ERA is that it accounts for the run-prevention effect of ground balls - particularly, it controls for the fact that the effect is nonlinear. Not only do more ground balls lead to fewer runs allowed, but the difference in ERA between pitchers who generate 40 to 50 percent ground balls is smaller than the difference in ERA between pitchers who generate 50 to 60 percent ground balls. That is why there is a negative coefficient on the squared ground-ball rate term in SIERA.
At the time, Eric and I believed the fewer runs allowed was just an artifact of ground-ball double plays erasing singles, but the effect is simply too large for that explanation. The interaction terms actually add only a small (but useful) effect at predicting ERA, but the ground-ball rate is really the difference between SIERA and its predecessors. Additionally, the implied positive ground-ball squared coefficient in QERA is actually that statistic's biggest flaw. In this article, I will look in more detail at ground-ball pitchers and why they are so good at preventing runs.
The first thing that I checked was whether pitchers with high ground-ball rates allowed lower hit rates on ground balls. Teams with good infield defense may target ground-ball pitchers, so to correct for this, I looked at the batting average allowed on ground balls for each pitcher relative to their team. Just to be assured that batted-ball classification did not get in the way (lest Colin Wyers show up at my door with a baseball bat), I looked at pitchers' ground-ball rates relative to their team (though the effect was clear either way).
For the 3,297 pitchers who allowed at least 100 balls in play in a season between 2003 and 2010, the correlation between their net ground-ball rate and their net ground-ball batting average was -.185.
I was concerned that relievers facing same-handed hitters might be creating a false correlation, so I looked at only pitchers with 300 balls in play in a season and found an even higher correlation: -.241.
Pitchers who allow more ground balls allow fewer ground-ball hits. The following table shows all pitchers who have had consecutive seasons of a 60 percent ground-ball rate (with at least 300 balls in play) since 2003:
Each of these guys has a career BABIP on ground balls that is at least 12 points below their teams' ground-ball BABIP. This is not a coincidence. They don't just induce contact with downward trajectories - they induce ground balls that are easier to field.
This is also true for slugging average on ground balls in play. There is a similar negative correlation for this group.
Do ground-ball pitchers induce weak contact on all balls in play? No. The reverse seems to be true for fly balls. Looking at outfield fly balls only, and excluding home runs, ground-ball pitchers have a distinctly higher BABIP and slugging average on balls in play.
However, these ground-ballers do not exhibit any tendencies toward line-drive BABIPs and infield pop-up BABIPs that are different than other pitchers. There is almost zero correlation year to year for BABIP on line drives or pop-ups for any pitchers.
The .025 correlation year to year on line-drive BABIP is particularly surprising because it is at odds with previous research. Six years ago, Mitchel Lichtman found that line-drive BABIP was persistent for pitchers, but look at the line-drive BABIP net of team line-drive BABIP and this unravels. This is a mixture of team defense adjustment and official scorer adjustment, but it un-teaches something important about pitcher BABIP that many of us thought we knew.
Contrast the randomness of line-drive BABIP and pop-up BABIP with ground-ball and fly-ball BABIPs, which have a .188 and .152 year-to-year correlations respectively, net of team. Overall, ground-ball pitchers allow higher BABIPs, but not higher slugging average on balls in play. This is primarily because ground balls are hits more often than fly balls, but the slugging on the two types of batted balls is similar. The correlation between ground-ball rate and overall BABIP and SLGBIP is shown below, with following year BABIP and following year SLGBIP alongside it:
However, correlation is a rough statistic that does not reveal subtleties or curvatures, so it misses the truth of what is going on.
Non-extreme ground-ball pitchers (those with 45-60 percent of balls in play as a ground ball) allow the highest BABIPs, but pitchers with ground-ball rates over 60 percent actually allows average BABIPs.
To adjust for the fact that some pitchers allowed more ground balls than others, I weighted the BABIP of each pitcher by the actual number of ground balls allowed.
The following graph of the average net BABIP in each group by ground-ball rate is even clearer:
While the lowest BABIPs belong to pitchers who allow fewer than 40 percent ground balls (these pitchers often have high infield pop-up rates), the pitchers with the highest ground-ball rates had lower BABIPs than pitchers with just slightly above-average ground-ball rates.
Moving on to look at slugging average on balls in play, we see that the non-correlation of ground-ball rate and slugging average on balls in play does not mean no relationship exists. In fact, pitchers with very low and very high ground-ball rates had the lowest slugging average on balls in play, while the highest slugging average on balls in play belongs to pitchers with average ground-ball rates.
Both of these statistics work well with a quadratic fit with respect to ground-ball rate in a regression analysis.
The BABIP (with errors included) of the 3,297 pitchers with at least 100 balls in play is best predicted by the following formula:
Net BABIP (with ROE) = -.002 + .136*(net GB%) - .401*(net GB%)^2
The p-statistic on both net ground-ball rate and its square was less than .01.
The SLGBIP (with errors included as singles) of the same 3,297 pitchers with at least 100 balls in play is best predicted by the following formula:
Net SLGBIP (with ROE) = -.003 + .097*(net GB%) - .611*(net GB%)^2
Again, the p-statistic is less than .01 for both net ground-ball rate and its square.
The best way to adjust for this would be to also adjust for the strikeout and walk rates, in which case we would get the following equations for BABIP and SLGBIP:
Net BABIP (with ROE) = .010 + .121*(net GB%) - .383*(net GB%)^2 - .082*(K%) + .033*(BB%)
Net SLGBIP (with ROE) = .017 + .072*(netGB%) - .580*(GB%) - .150*(K%) + .065*(BB%)
In both equations, the net ground-ball rate and its square had p-statistics that were less than .01, as was the strikeout rate coefficient. The walk rate coefficient had p=.032 for SLGBIP and p=.123 for BABIP, the latter of which is not statistically significant, but is still suggests an effect.
Given this curvature, it only makes sense that the inclusion of the ground-ball squared term did so much to help SIERA to fit the data.
The shape is less obvious when looking at the following year's BABIP and SLGBIP because ground-ball rates jump around, but we still see a generally similar effect in the two tables and graphs of these statistics below:
This data shows that ground-ball pitchers have a hidden value and that modeling BABIP indirectly as we did with SIERA, rather than assuming pitchers do not control it, helps improve the prediction of ERA. Statistics like xFIP have the benefit that the run value of defense-independent statistics (strikeouts, walks, and home runs) are done precisely with linear weights, but xFIP does not take into account that BABIP is lower for fly-ball pitchers. However, SIERA shows that extreme ground-ball pitchers also have a skill at preventing BABIP themselves.
Next time, I will look in more detail at another statistic that pitchers have little control over - the rate of home runs per fly ball. This statistic has a low year-to-year correlation, lower than BABIP does (.07 for HR/FB versus .13 for BABIP, both net of team rates) - but SIERA still gives us some help at picking up some of this effect.
Matt Swartz is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Ivan Bezdomny
Lost you in the middle there. If there is a considerable benefit to being a high GB% pitcher that xFIP doesn't capture, wouldn't it take fewer tables to show it?
Dec 15, 2010 01:50 AM
Yes, there is a benefit to being a high GB% pitcher than xFIP doesn't calculate. xFIP assumes BABIP skill is equal for all pitchers so it misses pitcher differences in that skill. xFIP's strength is that it more precisely knows the direct effect on runs of HR, BB, and K than SIERA can tell its own. The tables aren't a takedown of xFIP. They're just a way of highlighting the effect of ground balls that I have found.
Dec 15, 2010 05:13 AM
It seems ground balls result in about a 23% chance of being a hit and fly balls about a 14% chance of being a hit. Whichever starter for the Marlins has the best ground ball % must really be at a strong disadvantage with their very poor infield defense. Not just errors made, but especially easy double plays not turned and grounders not fielded that could have been. If this pitcher switched teams his effectiveness should really go up. Also, what is the possessed skill a pitcher has to induce a lot of infield pop-ups? It seems to me to be just randomness and maybe a "just missed a home run" swing? And if an infielder catches a popup a couple of feet on the outfield grass this would technically not be an infield popup- but just as easy an out. How could this be measured or evaluated?
Dec 15, 2010 07:24 AM
The graphs aren't showing up in my browser? Are they working for everyone else?
Dec 15, 2010 07:30 AM
"The following graph of the average net BABIP in each group by ground-ball rate is even clearer:"
Dec 15, 2010 08:45 AM
Grr. Trying to say "the / tag" (let's see if I escaped that correctly).
Dec 15, 2010 08:47 AM
Interesting analysis. What do the low p-statistics tell us about the validity of the independent variables used in the analysis and, therefore, the conclusions?
Dec 15, 2010 08:48 AM
The p-statistics being low is good. It means that there is virtually no chance that these variables would be so far from zero if those variables had nothing to do with ERA. Specifically, it's very unlikely that the effect of GB% on BABIP is just linear. The curve that you see in the tables (and hopefully the graphs...they're working on it) is significant enough.
Dec 15, 2010 08:55 AM
I've always been under the impression that "extreme flyball" pitchers - outside the confines of huge pitcher's parks - should be treated as if their spontaneous combustion was imminent. However, the "NETSLGBIP" and "NETBABIP" graphs seem to denote otherwise. Do they?
Dec 15, 2010 09:28 AM
Extreme fly balls pitchers are going to struggle to give up a lot of home runs. They may be solo home runs more often due to the infrequent hits on balls in play, but they will still be home runs. Pitchers who give up a lot of pop-ups are bound to do a little better than pitchers who give up only long flies. Regardless, the pitcher would need to have great K/BB numbers to offset the home run issue. There definitely could be a few. I think guys like Ted Lilly, Scott Baker, Jered Weaver all get away with high fly ball rates.
Dec 15, 2010 09:37 AM
What is it about Lilly, Weaver and Baker that lets them get away with this? More than just luck or randomness?
Dec 15, 2010 10:28 AM
Hmm... I would think that extreme fly ball pitcher = more home runs seems pretty intuitive.
Dec 15, 2010 10:50 AM
Oh, that's specifically because fly balls and pop-ups are outs more often than ground balls. About 23-24% of ground balls go for hits, while about 17-18% of fly balls and about 2% of pop-ups. FB pitchers have fewer hits on balls in play, but those hits do tend to go for extra bases, and they also tend to allow HRs too.
Dec 15, 2010 12:32 PM
I have to say, I think this is great: very informative and very interesting. Matt, did you run this analysis through any peer review? I'd be very curious to hear what other statisticians had to say about this.
Dec 15, 2010 10:38 AM
I didn't actually run this through peer review. A lot of the time our writers email each other about articles and talk them out, but short of a little discussion with Eric, I felt comfortable presenting these as facts. The conclusions are pretty evident, so I wasn't too worried about interpreting them incorrectly here. There's been some discussion of some of the peripheral issues on Tom Tango's blog but nothing really about the content at this point.
Dec 15, 2010 12:33 PM
Luke in MN
Statistics tab-- Pitcher-Team-Rates or Pitcher-Season-Rates:
Dec 15, 2010 12:35 PM
Luke in MN
Thanks! Any plans to put it on the player pages? (you should)
Dec 15, 2010 12:49 PM
I think so. They should be getting overhauled soon, and I've asked to make sure SIERA is on them. In my spreadsheets, I find it helpful to have SIERA year by year for pitchers so I'm sure readers would too!
Dec 15, 2010 13:16 PM
just making sure i'm parsing this right. i'd appreciate if you could tell me if i have any of the following wrong.
Dec 15, 2010 14:49 PM
Line drive rate for major league pitchers has almost no persistence at all. Something along the lines of <.01 year-to-year correlation. I'm sure that if you included a bunch of A-level pitchers in the major leagues, they'd allow a lot of line drives, but among MLB pitchers who can keep their jobs (i.e. maintain at least a K% of 10% and do at least something else well), they're line drive rate is not persistent at all.
Dec 15, 2010 15:11 PM
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Talk about a perfect way to celebrate International Jazz Day.
That was the thrilling symmetry Wednesday, when Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) broke ground on their new $25 million art space, on 12th Avenue SE, on International Jazz Day, April 30.
The Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre, nine years in the planning as a collaboration between DJD and Kahanoff Foundation, will feature a 327 square meter (3,520 square foot) dance studio that converts into a 200 seat performance space, a 232 square meter (2,500 square foot) Community Living Room, a media room and library, seven dance studios that will be available for community use by individuals and/or other Calgary arts groups, costume and wardrobe areas, dressing rooms, and DJD's administrative offices.
It will open in late 2015.
"The Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre will define Calgary as an international jazz dance destination," said DJD's Executive Director Kathi Sundstrom.
Not bad for a company that just turned 30 years of age a month ago.
"I say hallelujah!" said DJD's co-founder Vicki Adams Willis.
"Who would have thought," she said, "that 30 years ago, we would have planted seeds that led to this?"
The company has been working with the Kahanoff Foundation for years now to find a way to finance the construction of a new space that would add additional space for the Kahanoff Centre, a philanthropic organization that rents to charitable organizations at below-market prices, and also provide a new space for the dance company.
The new building will be occupied on the first five floors by Decidedly Jazz, and the top six by the Kahanoff Centre, creating 6,038 additional square meters (65,000 square feet) of inexpensive office space for non-profits to add to the 9,290 square meters (100,000 square feet) the current Kahanoff Centre contains.
Additionally, part of what attracted the Kahanoff Foundation to Decidedly Jazz was the sense that bringing them into the area could give it a jolt of energy, says Sundstrom.
"What they wanted," she said, "was (public) life (in the area) beyond Monday (and) Friday, (from) nine to five."
"Having a cultural anchor," she said, "you have people coming and going — and the concept of our (dance) school, and that it's all ages and levels and non-competitive and non-performance based — that anyone can come and just dance, was kind of the right theme."
That notion of creating a creative hub even extended to the design of the building, said Sundstrom.
"Often in cultural spaces, because of the nature of what they are, you don't see what's happening inside," said Sundstrom. "Art galleries have solid walls and theatres have to be dark — but they (DIALOG) really designed it so that you bring the dance to the street.
"In those dark winter evenings," she said, "if people go (past the building en route) to a Flames' game, they'll see people dancing."
That sentiment was echoed by Kahanoff Centre Charitable Activities board chair Alan Moon.
"This whole area will benefit greatly from having DJD in the area," said Moon, "because there's nothing like DJD in the country, and there's nothing like the Kahanoff Centre in the country."
Sundstrom said the new space will be available for use by the entire Calgary arts community.
"We very much believe that you have to support the entire ecology of a community," she said. "Certainly dance, but also music and theatre — then there's going to be one big studio that the company will rehearse in, but also converts into a 200 seat black box theatre — so that will be available to be rented by the community."
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Because retirement rules of thumb are guidelines designed for the average situation, they'll tend to be "wrong" for a particular retiree as often as they're "right." However, rules of thumb are usually based on a sound financial principle, and can provide a good starting point for assessing your retirement needs. Here are four common retirement rules of thumb.
The percentage of stock in a portfolio should equal 100 minus your age.
Financial professionals often advise that if you're saving for retirement, the younger you are, the more money you should put in stocks. Though past performance is no guarantee of future results, over the long term, stocks have historically provided higher returns and capital appreciation than other commonly held securities. As you age, you have less time to recover from downturns in the stock market. Therefore, many professionals suggest that as you approach and enter retirement, you should begin converting more of your volatile growth-oriented investments to fixed-income securities such as bonds.
A simple rule of thumb is to subtract your age from 100.
The difference represents the percentage of stocks you should keep in your portfolio. For example, if you followed this rule at age 40, 60% (100 minus 40) of your portfolio would consist of stock. However, this estimate is not a substitute for a comprehensive investment plan, and many experts suggest modifying the result after considering other factors, such as your risk tolerance, financial goals, the fact that bond yields are at historic lows, and the fact that individuals are now living longer and may have fewer safety nets to rely on than in the past.
A "safe" withdrawal rate is 4%.
Your retirement income plan depends not only upon your asset allocation and investment choices, but also on how quickly you draw down your personal savings. Basically, you want to withdraw at least enough to provide the current income you need, but not so much that you run out too quickly, leaving nothing for later retirement years. The percentage you withdraw annually from your savings and investments is called your withdrawal rate. The maximum percentage that you can withdraw each year and still reasonably expect not to deplete your savings is referred to as your "sustainable withdrawal rate."
A common rule of thumb is that withdrawal of a dollar amount each year equal to 4% of your savings at retirement (adjusted for inflation) will be a sustainable withdrawal rate. However, this rule of thumb has critics, and there are other strategies and models that are used to calculate sustainable withdrawal rates. For example, some experts suggest withdrawing a lesser or higher fixed percentage each year; some promote a rate based on your investment performance each year; and some recommend a withdrawal rate based on age. Factors to consider include the value of your savings, the amount of income you anticipate needing, your life expectancy, the rate of return you anticipate from your investments, inflation, taxes, and whether you're planning for one or two retired lives.
You need 70% of your pre-retirement income during retirement.
You've probably heard this many times before, and the number may have been 60%, 80%, 90%, or even 100%, depending on who you're talking to. But using a rule of thumb like this one, while easy, really isn't very helpful because it doesn't take into consideration your unique circumstances, expectations, and goals.
Instead of basing an estimate of your annual income needs on a percentage of your current income, focus instead on your actual expenses today and think about whether they'll stay the same, increase, decrease, or even disappear by the time you retire. While some expenses may disappear, like a mortgage or costs for transportation to and from work, new expenses may arise, like yard care services, snow removal, or home maintenance--things that you might currently take care of yourself but may not want to (or be able to) do in the future. Additionally, if travel or hobby activities are going to be part of your retirement, be sure to factor these costs into your retirement expenses. This approach can help you determine a more realistic forecast of how much income you'll need during retirement.
Save 10% of your pay for retirement. hile this seems like a perfectly reasonable rule of thumb, again, it's not for everyone. For example, if you've started saving for retirement in your later years, 10% may not provide you with a large enough nest egg for a comfortable retirement, simply because you have fewer years to save.
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Saskatchewan's always had a unique place in Canada. The thing that sets us apart this year is that we have the only balanced provincial budget in the country. Newfoundland and Labrador announced its deficit budget this week – and that's the last budget announcement of 2012. We know that this was made possible by all hard work that you do – and as legislators, we commit that we will continue to take action that protects the Saskatchewan Advantage you have created.
The Saskatchewan Advantage is about more than just growth for growth's sake. It is about taking the benefits of having a strong, growing economy and putting it to work for the Saskatchewan people.
Investing in affordable housing is one of the ways we're doing that. Our government recently announced that we have redesigned two programs that improve and maintain affordable housing. The Saskatchewan Home Repair Program and the Conversion Initiative were both redesigned this past year to ensure they reflect Saskatchewan's current housing environment and unique housing needs. The Saskatchewan Home Repair Program will assist moderate-income homeowners and rental property owners housing low-income tenants to repair and/or adapt their dwellings so they are not lost from the market. The Conversion Initiative will focus on encouraging development of new rental housing by private and non-profit groups by converting non-residential space to residential use.
Regina was honoured to host the second Housing and Development Summit this week, which focused on the continued planning for growth in Saskatchewan and the need to ensure that housing is affordable and accessible for all Saskatchewan citizens. This summit is important because it provides stakeholder an opportunity to learn from the experts and exchange ideas on current housing planning. Through consultation with stakeholders we will find the solution for the tight housing market that economic growth brings.
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Outcomes for the 2019–20 financial year have been updated and include:
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This is the first time since 2015–16 financial year prices have been below $7.25 per GJ in all regions.
- Factors contributing to these price declines were falling international prices bearing on the domestic market and sustained high gas production, particularly in Queensland.
- Significant growth in the Day Ahead Auction of unused transportation capacity in 2019–20.
The auction has assisted in bringing cheaper northern gas to the southern markets, which has contributed to lower prices.
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Pope: St. Dominic's 9 Ways of Prayer Are Model for Christians
The Holy Father's Aug. 8 address from his summer residence.
On the feast of St. Dominic, Pope Benedict XVI praised the founder of the Order of Preachers as "a man of prayer, in love with God," whose nine ways of prayer are an example for Christians' daily life.
St. Dominic, the Pope said, united the proclamation of the Gospel with "witness to a life of poverty."
"In every moment, prayer was the force that renewed and rendered fruitful his apostolic works," the Pope said Aug. 8 at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
Prayer is the "origin of witnessing to the faith" in every aspect of life, he continued. The Pope stressed the need to find moments "to pray quietly every day for our spiritual life," particularly during vacations.
Daily prayer, he said, is "a way to help those who are near to us to enter into the luminous rays of the presence of God, who brings the peace and love that we all need."
The Pope said St. Dominic showed great sociability during the day, but also showed great diligence in prayer at night. This practice reveals the saint's "harmonious integration" of contemplation and apostolic work.
Pope Benedict then turned his attention to the saint's nine ways of prayer.
St. Dominic prayed standing, while bowing to express humility, and while lying prostrate on the ground to ask forgiveness for his sins. He prayed on his knees in penance to "participate in the sufferings of the Lord." He prayed with his arms open, while gazing at the crucifix to contemplate God's "supreme love."
The Pope particularly lingered on St. Dominic's final two ways of prayer: personal mediation and prayer while traveling.
In personal mediation, prayer acquires "a more intimate, fervent and soothing dimension." After the Liturgy of the Hours and the celebration of Mass, St. Dominic "prolonged his conversation with God."
"He lived these moments of his relationship with God so intensely that his reactions of joy or tears were outwardly perceptible," the Pope said. Witnesses reported that the saint would enter "a sort of ecstasy," after which he would resume his daily work, "recharged by the power that comes on High."
St. Dominic's prayer while traveling allowed him to "contemplate the beauty of creation" and sometimes caused him to sing a hymn of praise and thanksgiving to God.
The saint especially praised God for what Pope Benedict described as "the greatest wonder of all: the redemption accomplished by Christ."


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Welcome to another Arcane Brilliance, the weekly Mage column that celebrates everything Mageworthy and thinks Warlocks smell funny.
I have a buddy who doesn't use addons.
I know, I know. And before you ask: yes, he is a moron. It's a flaw I've learned to overlook during the years we've known each other. His rationale for not using addons seems to be a combination of mistrust for anything that isn't part of the game right out of the box and a misguided belief that addons somehow equate to a form of cheating.
Now, I'll never convince him he's wrong--even though he clearly is--but I chalk that up to the fact that he is a moron. We both know and accept the fact of his moronitude, acknowledge that after 20 years of friendship, he probably isn't going to become any less infuriating, and move on to other topics.
You see, addons are awesome. I frequently assert to anyone who cares to listen (earning me more than a few strange looks, believe you me) that believing addons are cheats simply because Blizzard didn't program them into the default UI is pretty much the same thing as considering indoor plumbing a cheat because God didn't program it into the Earth when he originally created it. Addons are the community's way of grafting functionality into the game that Blizzard should have included from the start, and that's simply how it is. And yes, I am indirectly rebuking deity for not providing mankind with toilets from the beginning. I mean, how does it make sense that we had to go thousands of years without the option of peeing indoors? That's just poor design. I fully expect to be struck down at any moment as an example to smart-asses everywhere.
Disclaimer: I am in no way asserting that not using addons makes you a moron. I'm certain there are a great many of you out there who prefer not to use addons, and I'm sure you're by and large wonderful, fully functioning human beings. All I'm saying is that my buddy isn't one of those people. Also addons are awesome. That's all I'm saying.
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I have always been a visual person, and one of my favourite parts about being a petrologist is the pretty photos of thin sections that I have collected. I also love organizing stuff—I was one of those kids who had even more fun sorting my legos by colour, size, and type than I did actually building things out of them. However, until this week, it had never occurred to me that it would be possible to do visual organization of my photos. Oh, sure, I had some organization of my sample photos—a folder for all the thin section photos, and sub folders for each sample. Another folder for photos of drill cores, with sub folders for each drill hole, and under those more sub folders for each box of core (since when using my phone I need to take nine photos per tray of core in order to photograph every bit of it.
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Then I read a blog post by my favourite medieval textile scholar describing the photo organizational database she uses. She mentioned that one can store photos in a folder yet, at the same time, have "albums" to organize them, and the possibility of one photo belonging to more than one album, without duplicating the photo. Her description of being able to define smart albums based on key words associated with the photos caught my attention, so I went off and got a copy of the program.
Doing this has really re-inspired me to work. My partner and I recently bought a house, and a rather large part of me had been resenting "work" as something that was interfering with important things like getting the house unpacked and organized, and exploring the forest outside of our door. But now I am keen to come into the office and play with my photos and organize them. I am actually looking forward to writing papers, because choosing the right image to show the feature I describe in the text will be so easy with this tool.
So far I have created albums for each drill hole, and sub albums within the drill holes for the individual samples. I have copied all of the notes I took for each sample into the album description, so I can see at a glance which phases are present, what rock type I assigned the sample to, where the sample comes from, and so much more. I am adding key words to my samples so that I can later ask to see all photos containing feldspar, or pyrite, or whatever, and I will get them. The program lets one select multiple photos at once and apply key words to them all at one go, which saves time.
One bit of advice if you decide to do something like this: Decide on your key word pattern as early as possible. My photos are marked with a variety of types of key words, and my first attempt I just typed in useful words like "PPl", "XPL", "folded" "Qtz", "10X" etc. But then I realized that one can add key words from a drop-down menu, which is sorted alphabetically. After I made that realization I added a type code to the front of the key words, and now I can specify if the key word is a "drill hole", the "scale", a mineral ("min"), a phase that only shows up in this sample as inclusions within another mineral ("inc"), the rock type, structure, or any number of other categories that I will come up with later. This makes choosing the keywords much easier, as they are now grouped together, so I can click on the one I need.


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With that solid experience under his belt, Musk moved on in his early 30s to Tesla Motors, the company that builds the Tesla Roadster electronic sports car. He has served as the company's CEO and "product architect" since 2008, and as its chairman since 2004.
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I was going over final art for my forthcoming picture book about Elizabeth Blackwell and there was one detail in one of Marjorie Priceman's pieces that I wanted to make sure we had gotten right. It was an illustration of her graduation and she was not wearing her bonnet. I needed to quickly double-check and make sure we hadn't missed this detail and that her bare head was a-ok, so I went online and in TWO minutes I found a primary source document proving that she was not wearing her bonnet that day. All was well! That could have taken weeks pre-Internet.
The Internet has become an invaluable tool for the research process in my books in many ways. The ability to locate experts in various fields and share information is mind-boggling. I'll never forget the first time I realized that this was not just a tool that could make certain things easier, it was a tool that could make certain things possible! At the time, I was charged with writing a wildlife series in which the film for the original books was published in China. Translation: the film we were working with consisted of complete photographic layouts of 32 page books, with Chinese text that we were going to ignore. Instead, my challenge was to properly identify the contents of the photographs, figure out the theme of each spread, and write new text to go with it. Given my wildlife and science education background, this was do-able. EXCEPT when I got to a book about alligators and crocodiles. These photos all looked alike to me. What to do? I got on the Internet and began to search for the world experts on alligators and crocs. And I found one. There was a scientist in Darwin, Australia who specialized in Crocodilians—otherwise known as alligators, crocodiles, and caimans. (Who knew?) He was happy to identify the photos for me. So I scanned all of the spreads and emailed them to him. One by one, he told me exactly what I was looking at and I was able to write the text. Pre-Internet—not really possible. How would I even begun to have found him??
In my forthcoming book, Courage Has No Color, the photo research was painstakingly slow. It is a story about WWII veterans and the images of them were few to begin with and fewer to survive the decades. I don't know if I could have found most of what I did without the Internet. In some instances, it was tracking down small military archives; in others, it was a matter of being a detective and finding obscure phone numbers of distant relatives. Zabasearch came in handy!
The bulk of my research in general is done sans Internet with the usual suspects—library materials, documentaries, oral histories, interviews, etc.. But this ever-expanding body of material available by researching on line is staggering and has opened up new avenues of discovery. Thanks, Al Gore! ;-)
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- Gretchen Woelfle said...
Hear, Hear! I'm working in the 18th century right now, and the numbers of documents - in manuscript and printed form - that are available online astonishes me. Another book I'm working on re the 20th century will include photos from the 1920s that were buried in a box until recently. Now they are on Flickr. Lots of people diss Wiki, but I don't. I find it a great place to look for further sources. Like the web itself, some information is suspect, but much is solid. And Wiki images have been very useful.
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- Mary said...
Yes! Tanya, thanks so much for mentioning Zabasearch. I was still diddling around with white pages, obits & Ancestry.com trying to find people.
The internet is growing more amazing by the day for research. For the WWII book I am working on, new photos keep popping up all the time. I'm amazed at how much more info there is now than three years ago when I started the research. Makes a historian's job so much easier.
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